I found a new lifesteal SMP that is trying to keep things fair. The plugins are tested and the staff is not sitting around with commands all the time so it feels less like admin abuse. They still will ban players if needed.

The vibe is mostly do what you want in PvP. Stuff people call dumb like certain weapons and combos are allowed. There is a rule about not just camping spawn to farm new players and there will be consequences for that.

Rules are simple like no cheating or exploits or freecam. No duping and no combat logging. Elytra pearls and stasis are allowed in fights. Also no naked killing since that makes fights super unfair. No loopholes either.

The world border is 20k by 20k blocks so there is lots of room to roam. It might feel empty at first since it is new but they want people to bring friends and help it grow.